MP3 Various Artists - New Music for the Church, Vol. 1

Artistic, functional church music for the 21st Century. Features numerous soloists, instrumentalists, and ensembles from Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA.

18 MP3 Songs in this album (62:57) !
Related styles: SPIRITUAL: Hymns, CLASSICAL: Traditional



Details:
This is a compilation album of compositions or arrangements by Dr. Paul S. Jones, Organist and Music Director of Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, featuring numerous soloists, instrumentalists, and ensembles associated with the church. (www.tenth.org)

Included are:
David Avella, baritone; Sheryl Woods Olson, soprano; Wendy Harton Benner, violin; Samuel Hsu, piano; Kangho Lee, cello; Richard Nichols, horn; Daniel Smith, trombone; Tenth Church Choir, Tenth Men's Choir, Tenth Chamber Players, and Westminster Brass.
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Paul S. Jones has been Organist and Music Director of Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia since 1998. His musical studies began at the age of five in the Toronto and Western Ontario Conservatory programs. He holds graduate degrees in piano and conducting from Indiana University School of Music where, as a doctoral fellow, he studied with esteemed pianist and pedagogue, Menahem Pressler, and was recipient of an Arts Grant in conducting from The Canada Council.

As a pianist, Dr. Jones has collaborated with violinist David Kim, cellist Anne Martindale Williams, duo piano partner Samuel Hsu, and Metropolitan Opera stars Jerome Hines, Sharon Sweet, and Stuart Neill, as well as other artists of renown. He is author of "Singing and Making Music: Issues in Church Music Today" (P&R, 2006), and is a regular church conference speaker and clinician. Dr. Jones is president of Paul Jones Music, Inc., a corporation of composers who write new music for the 21st century church (www.pjonesmusic.us). Jones has composed or arranged more than 200 sacred works including "Hymns for a Modern Reformation" with the late James Montgomery Boice.